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K15.3 CHIRON & ACHILLES

Chiron & Achilles | Attic red figure vase painting
DETAILS
Museum Collection Musée du Louvre, Paris
Catalogue No. Louvre G3
Beazley Archive No. 200435
Ware Attic Red Figure
Shape Amphora
Painter Attributed to Oltos
Date ca 520 B.C.
Period Late Archaic

DESCRIPTION

Side: The centaur Chiron holds the boy Achilles in one hand and in the other a branch hung with a hare. The centaur is clothed in a chiton and is depicted with the full body of a man--including legs and feet--with the torso and rear legs of a horse attached to his rump.
Neck: Nereid Nymphs holding fish (see other image).

ARTICLES

Chiron

OTHER IMAGES

Thumbnail Nereid

P12.5 Nereid